I agree with Michael. I have several RH 7.2beta2 test machines here, and
it -is- included and -is- being tested in ways that are unimaginable ;-)
So far my experiances have been very good with ext3.. its got good speed
(though journaling is always slower then plain ext2!), and behaves very
nicely.. scales well with high-IO requirements. However, untill redhat feels
secure enough to release 7.2 final, i wouldnt use ext3 on my production
systems yet.. i like to play it safe, while still being cutting edge ;-)
My experiances with JFS have been very negative so far. The few times i
tried JFS 1.0, it nuked my filesystem badly on the first fsck.jfs.. Many
other users had the same problems. So steer clear from it for now.
XFS has a very good reputation, scales very well, does large files etc
perfectly, and i have heard no complaints on it yet, so might be a good
option if u'd prefer not to use ext3. (However ext3 has been around longer
if u only count XFS linux time).
The main upside for ext3, is that it is migratable from ext2 ... jus' a
simple tunefs and change fstab, and u'r set. Also 'downgrading' back to ext2
is childishly simpel. (change fstab back, and remove .journal file). This is
a -unique- huge benifit for anyone in the market to use a journaling fs.
Also it will be comercialy supported by Redhat.
So as michael said:
> I would encourage Dell customers to jump on ext3
> when Red Hat 7.2 becomes available.
-- Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown at dell.com>
To: Dirk Wetter <dirkw at rentec.com>
Cc: Chris Chabot <chabotc at reviewboard.com>; Zeki Mokhtarzada
<zeki at freewebz.com>; <Linux-PowerEdge at exchange.dell.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 09:43
Subject: Re: EXT3
>> No. It _will_ be included in 7.2, not probably. In Linux, version numbers
> very rarely accurately reflect the development maturity of a piece of
> software. I would definetly not say that I will use JFS just because it is
> version 1.0, just like I would definetly not say that I would not use ext3
> because the version is <1.0. (sorry about the double-negatives.)
>> Red Hat has been conducting a multi-year beta test effort for this new
> filesystem. They seem to think that ext3 is ready for production, so that
> is Dell's view as well. I would encourage Dell customers to jump on ext3
> when Red Hat 7.2 becomes available.
>> --
> Michael
>> On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Dirk Wetter wrote:
>> >
> >
> > i wouldn't phrase it in that way. what you mean by support is probably
> > that it'll be included in 7.2.
> > i know that ST is more on the careful side, which is good. but i
> > wouldn't trust a filesystem which has the version number 0.0.7a. my
> > data is just too valuable. if you need logging in a server environment,
> > look into XFS (my personal preference), JFS (umm, well they jumped
> > from version 0.3 over 1.0 to 2.x) or reiserfs, which is on Linux the
> > journalled fs which has probably the widespreadests use. it should be
> > also included in your redhat kernel. don't know however whether the
> > knfsd patch is included, which is important for early 2.4.x kernels if
you
> > and plan to nfs export reiserfs.
> >
> > my $0.25,
> >
> > ~dirkw
> >
> > -----------
> > Dirk Wetter
> > Renaissance Technologies/NY
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Chris Chabot wrote:
> >
> > > Redhat 7.1 doesnt officialy support ext3 yet.. 7.2 (currently in beta
2
> > > stage) does.
> > >
> > > For any detailed questions, my advice would be to go to the redhat
ext3
> > > mailing lists and/or check the bugzilla.redhat.com database for 'ext3'
> > > bugs ;-)
> > >
> > > -- Chris
> > >
> > > Zeki Mokhtarzada wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am tempted to convert my filesystem to ext3 using:
> > > >
> > > > tune2fs -j /dev/sdXX
> > > >
> > > > Are their any pitfalls I need to watch out for? Other than losing a
> > > > little disk space, are their any drawbacks? Are their any risks?
Is
> > > > there any way tune2fs will mess up my partition? Do I have to
remount
> > > > once I'm done? I am running Redhat 7.1 (2.4.2-2smp), is there
> > > > anything I can do to make sure that I have all the tools that I
> > > > need? Thanks.
> > > >
> > > > -Zeki
> > > >
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>> --
> Michael Brown
> Linux OS Development
> Dell Computer Corp
>> If each of us have one object, and we exchange them,
> then each of us still has one object.
> If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them,
> then each of us now has two ideas.
>